Undivided Honesty
The BlogchiveNew Change This Summer
Very soon, UndividedHonesty.net will become Eight59.net! I’m excited for this new domain name. It’s my birth time too! I know in my last post, I asked for a cheap domain registrar, but I’ve decided to just stick with Namecheap. Seems like it’s still the cheapest. I’ve tried 1&1 (cheaper than Namecheap), but apparently, they don’t accept payments from countries that aren’t in their list. Lame.
Anyway, I haven’t been updating much because I’d been reading a lot and slacking too. I’ve finished the first three books of the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton and loved it. I’m going to look for the rest of the series. I’ve also just started reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer. So far so good, I love it already. 
I’ve updated my Shelfari with a lot of books I own, have read before and am reading now. If you, like me, love reading, you should check it out, it’s a good site for keeping track of your reading. 
I’m also contemplating whether or not to go to SINGfest. It’s quite expensive, and I only really want to see 5 (New Found Glory, Simple Plan, Crowned King, Jason Mraz and Alicia Keys) out of 13 artists that will be performing on the two days. :/
Other than that, nothing much has been going on in my life. I have just started working on my resubmission of my FYP for college. Procrastination is I. 
They haven’t sent me the notification of when it’s to be handed up, so hopefully I’ll get it done in a week. I need to stop procrastinating! D:
Jobless Graduate
So I am now a member of the jobless community. I have just graduated from college! I may not have gotten my certificate yet but still! I had my last assessment on Friday, hence the neglect of my site. :/
I have also gotten sick! Just my luck. I guess my body just hasn’t had the time to rest or get sick for a long time, and I’d just always been getting only a few hours of sleep every day.
I have had to postpone my ice skating plans with Gavin to tomorrow. 
I hope I feel better by then… if not I’ll just meet up with him to hang out.
My domain is expiring next month. I have no idea if I want to stick with this one anymore. I love the name of it and all, but it’s long and gets tiring to type. :/ I was considering changing it to eight59.net instead, it’s short and easy, plus it’s my birth time. :p What do you guys think? Some opinions would be nice.
Also, does anyone know of a cheap and reliable domain registrar? Namecheap has gotten a tad expensive (I paid US$7.98 and now it’s US$9.29), and what with the conversion, it would be quite a bit more for me to pay.
Oh, the horror.
I’m sure by now, most (if not all) of you would have heard of the Austrian case. The Daily Mail has a bunch of articles on it, if you are interested. There are more details revealed in several of the articles. I’m sure Google would come up with even more articles. Since everyone has been talking about it, what are your views on it?
I think that it’s very “Wow.” because no one would have suspected it but what astounds me is that her mother had no clue at all. I mean, would you not be suspicious if your daughter went missing and said she “did not want to be found” because she joined a cult? I have several mixed opinions on it, but the main thing is, I think that what the father did was wrong (who wouldn’t, right?). Sure, he can have some wild fantasies and stuff, but to have had carried it out? That scares me.
And as graduation nears…
Wow. Graduation is fast approaching. This Tuesday would be my Stage 2 Assessment for my FYP and May 8 is the Graduation Show. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous at all to present on assessment day. There’d be an external assessor. I’m not too fond of that. I get shit nervous and can never explain my project well enough. Sure, I’d had a ton of presentations in my 3 years of college, but I can never get over the nervousness. :/
To be honest, I’m not even done with my FYP yet. I still have about 10 spreads (read: 20 pages) left of my book to do, and not forgetting the minor and supporting items too! I’m sure I’d be able to get everything done but it will take quite a while. Damn me and my procrastination! I hate it when I’ve got lots of time and I don’t have any ideas, but when I’m running out of time, inspiration hits. ;_; Life is mostly like this though, isn’t it? :p Hopefully everything gets done by tonight, so that I can print early tomorrow morning. Gah, all that stress! D:
Alright, I need to get back to work. I’ll post again once everything is over and I’ve gotten enough rest. Having only a couple of hours of sleep a day really sucks and screws up my sleeping pattern! D:
This is Graduation.
I don’t know about you, but I upgraded my WordPress a couple of days ago and I must say, I really love the slickness of the new design! If you haven’t upgraded already, you should. Though, I’m still not used to the Plugins link being on the far right yet.
College has been rather stressful… I graduate next month, and have a FYP and two minor projects to complete by Stage 2 Assessment at the end of this month. Majoring in Publication Design is not as easy as it seems! D: I’m sure I’d be able to complete everything by then, but it would be a bit of a mad rush, seeing as I had procrastinated for the past few weeks. My bad, I can never not procrastinate. ><;; I am making progress now though, so hopefully, with fingers crossed, I’d finish everything by the 14th, as planned. -crosses fingers-
I’m still not too sure about what to do after I graduate. It’s either I go look for a job or continue with a degree. I want to do my degree overseas but that would be really expensive and my parents definitely can’t afford that, so I’m hoping I’d manage to get a scholarship (not a high chance, seeing as my results aren’t that good), if anything. Otherwise, I’d just get a job in hopes of funding for Uni… If only I was rich, or if someone would sponsor me, haha.
Thank you to everyone for being nice to me about the breakup. We are still on talking terms, despite things getting even more complicated and confusing, haha. We both love (each other) so much, but several problems need to be solved/gotten over, if we want to give the relationship a third try. Whoever said LDRs were easy, huh? :p
“Great, I have herpes.”
This afternoon, me and Reyna were just hanging out online and she sent me a link, shocked that someone had actually uploaded 71 minutes of video. Upon looking further, we then found ourselves trying to help the film makers to raise money for their film production, only to realise they had already made their target (raising more than their target, even). We planned to watch the film together once it was done loading. The film that I am talking about, is called Four Eyed Monsters.
WHAT IS THE MOVIE ABOUT?
It’s about our lives. Being alone in a city, wanting to be in a relationship but feeling there are no good ways to start a connection and then breaking out of a rut, jumping feet first into something deeper and crazier than either of us expected.
You should really check it out because not only was it “nominated for two spirit awards and won the undiscovered gems Sundance Audience Award” (For more about the film, check this out.), it is also very inspiring and creative. I love how they had their dates, it made me want to try out future dates like that.
On a small side note, me and Will are over. Just a little over our ninth monthsary, we’re over. The past (more than a) week has been an upsetting one, but life goes on as usual. I have mopped about, rushed shit for assessments, got annoyed with my family over the slightest things and cried like a freaking tap that’s been left on. However, we are still on talking terms (though, I’m not sure how good that is for my emotional health) and I feel better having him to talk to than not (which I hope isn’t weird, considering people I know break contact with ex boyfriends to get over them). This is beyond fucked up, but like I said, life goes on.
Have fun watching the film!
A whole crap load of updates!
[Edit (February 23, 2008 / 1.25am)] Jesus, sometimes I really hate people. There was NO need, whatsoever, to be rude and she was. -_- The world, especially the younger generation, honestly needs more patience. [/Edit]
So… I have been very busy these past few weeks! I will categorise them so you don’t have to comment on the whole post, just pick one that you like.
Open House
College got even busier, and to top that off, I joined in as a Student Ambassador for NAFA Open House 2008 (right at the bottom of the page) which happened from January 31st to February 2nd. Though it was tiring, it was really fun! Of course, we took loads of pictures. xD Those are only on the last day, though.
Lent
This year, I decided to join in with giving up something for Lent together with Reyrey. I chose chocolates and crisps. However, as it was around the Chinese New Year period, and my mum baked chocolate chip cookies, I ended up eating one and realised after that I shouldn’t have. But since I already did, I decided to just stick with the crisps one.
Chinese New Year
Another busy time! On the eve, after I came back from college, I spring cleaned my table, lol. It wasn’t fun. D: But I did it anyway. Then there was the traditional reunion dinner, which I always look forward to because there’s always good stuff, haha. My dad’s awesomely good roasted chicken, abalone, prawn, fish, vegetables… just an overall delicious spread.
On the first day on Chinese New Year, we go visit the eldest of the family first, and that would be my maternal grandmother so we usually spend the whole first day there. ^^ Second day, we met my paternal relatives for dinner and spent the third day at home since we had no plans. On the forth, we visited my paternal grandmother’s sister with my paternal relatives.
After which, I went out with my cousins. It was nice, because I hardly ever get to see them in a year. After which, I was told that my younger cousin reads my blogs. And told one of the cousins that I was out with, about me breaking up with Will. I mean, honestly. What the fuck? It’s not that I’m saying she can’t read it, she can, but what is her problem? She doesn’t have the right to tell others, I do. It’s my life, and my decisions! Jesus! ><
On the brighter side though, I got quite a good sum of money this year. S$390 in red packets, haha.
Love Is The Movement Day
This is on 13th February of every year, a day where we all write the word “love” on our arms in support of To Write Love On Her Arms. TWLOHA is an organisation, a work in progress, for broken people, so that they may find love. It is around this period of time where suicide rates are the highest. I cannot explain this well enough, so you should watch this to get a much better idea of what TWLOHA is really about. If you already knew of TWLOHA, did you write love on your arms on that day?
Valentine’s Day
For me, I had a rather crap Valentine’s Day. It was not because I was lonely, it wasn’t because I have a boyfriend in the UK, half the world away from me. It was because my friends had their SO with them, while I was alone. And to top things off, they always joke about it, even when it’s not Valentine’s Day. It really hurts and upsets me, but I don’t know how to tell them to stop.
However, today, I received a package from the love! It consisted of a Valentine’s Day card and a The Used messenger bag. That pretty much made up for the crappy day. :p Though, I’m not thrilled that he spent money on me. ><
Final Year Project
I am completely dead for this one. ._. My progress is so bad, I’m about to cry! >< I’m really really stressed up as well. There’s just so little time left till assessments next Tuesday and I really haven’t gotten a lot done. I’m not planning on sleeping tonight, in hopes of doing as much as I can so wish me luck. :p
Back to not having a life.
[Edit (January 23, 2008 / 1.43am)] Done with the new layout! It’s what you’re looking at now. *is proud* :p There are still a couple more tiny details to be touched up, but I’ll do them another time. I should go to bed now, I have to wake at 7am for lessons, lol! [/Edit]
So… college started again this week. It has been rather relaxing, I guess. It being the first week and not having much to do… yet, anyway. I do have some homework already though… And I’m learning some more stuff that I really like, publications wise, so that’s really good. Also learning some video related stuff, I’m excited about that too. We all got separated into our majors so we have new classes and lecturers. I like having new classmates. I love meeting new people, in general. ^^ Though, I mainly stick to two people whom I’d already known through old classmates. One of whom I got closer to after going to an FOB gig with.
Hopefully this semester would be awesome ones, though I’m sure I’d end up being very stressed along the way and not update much, haha. There are so many things that I want to do, that I already don’t have enough time to do. The supposed layout is still not finished and I’m not happy about that. :/ But I suppose, college should be put first, for the remaining 13 weeks of college. It’s the most important semester of all, seeing as I have to do my FYP. I pray I’d get awesome grades and get hired on the spot. :p
Resolutions wise, I’d already broken a few, haha. Such as, going to bed at 11pm daily so as to get enough sleep for the next day of lessons and also going to exercise at least twice a week to get fit. Ah well, I usually make them for fun anyway, because I know I’d never follow through. xD What about you guys? Broken any resolutions yet? :p
It’s time to party! …or not.
I know I hadn’t updated in a while but I didn’t realise that it’s been two weeks! Gosh, time sure flies! +_+
So, I have completed my internship. Yay for that! Haha. However, I still have one more outstanding project to complete before I am completely done though. That shouldn’t take too long, or at least I hope so, or it would defeat the purpose of me taking a week break before college starts again!
Hmm… I haven’t changed this layout in ages either, about half a year? Since this domain was launched anyway. :/ I have already started working on a new one so that should be up before I go back to college next week.
Also, I got the iPod Classic 160GB as mentioned in the last post. I adore it, haha. I have almost all my media on it, and there’s still so much space left! I hate running out of space, so that’s awesome. :p
I joined the Official Anberlin Street Team, just because I am such a hardcore Anberlin fan, like my friends can vouch for. xD They’re a US Rock band, and if you have never heard of them but love Rock music, I say you should check them out. ^^
Christmas was not as eventful as lots of people and my presents weren’t fantastic but I got to spend time with my cousins which was nice. They can be so retarded sometimes, in a good way, haha. New Year’s was pretty boring too, I just stayed home all day like I do every year, but that’s alright. It’s no big, I don’t like going out on public holidays anyway. I hate crowds. :p I hope you guys had a great holiday though!
Happy holidays!
On the whole boyfriend topic in the last post, I took him back so the crisis is, well, quite over somehow. For the moment, anyway. :p I decided that I’d rather be happy than dwell over something that can never be changed and be very unhappy. And the few days after we got back together, it was like the honeymoon period all over again, lol. That’s how much in love I am with that boy. ♥
Christmas is fast approaching, what are your plans? As usual, I’m heading over to my cousin’s house where annually, they invite church friends and family over. It’s more of a gathering than a party sort of thing, though I would’ve quite liked a party, lol. I also haven’t gotten any shopping done. Hadn’t any time, but I’m sure no one minds late presents. I mean, afterall, you’re still getting presents, what’s to be unhappy about? Lol. :p To be honest, the past couple of years, it has never felt like Christmas at all. Last year, I was preoccupied with neverending college projects. This year, I have internship around the holiday period (which is ridiculous). What holiday are you talking about? >< Though next year… I can SO see myself having a ball of a time. It will be a good year, haha. I would have graduated by then!
On the topic of holidays and presents, I had for the longest time, thought about getting myself an iPod Video but decided on a PSP in the end because it had games, video and music capabilities. But only a couple of days, I checked up on Apple and realised that they had three new iPods! I hardly ever check up on new stuff, so I was kind of slow in knowing, lol. I had my eye on the iPod Touch and was utterly mesmerised by the guided tour. However, after thinking for a while, and comparing the new iPod Classic and the iPod Touch, I’d rather go for the iPod Classic 160GB for the storage space rather than the design of the iPod Touch. For that, it would cost me around S$600 as compared to around S$700 for a 16GB iPod Touch. That’s 10 times less storage space for S$100 more! Outrageous, isn’t it? Lol. So I’ve concluded that the iPod Classic would be better worth for money. Hopefully there’d be post Christmas sales so I can get it ASAP and for a cheaper price, or I’d be using up half of my internship pay!
